The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.


Miguel de Unamuno

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Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -...
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Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
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Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with anot...
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal...
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
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One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unre...
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, di...
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging the...
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Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
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Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.
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Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothe...
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does ab...
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Short sentences drawn from long experiences.
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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
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Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
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Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by h...
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Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy tha...
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the ...
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wis...
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Every man is the son of his own works.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another...
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the oth...
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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphab...
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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I've never worked with the Java community.
MIGUEL DE ICAZA
I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your plat...
MIGUEL DE ICAZA
Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and the goal of a good intention was never reached through ...
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